# temo
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈte.mu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈte.mo]

### Verb

temo
* first-person singular present indicative of témer

## Classical Nahuatl
### Verb

temo
* (intransitive) to descend

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from French thème, Russian те́ма (téma), German Thema, English theme and Polish temat.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈtemo]
* Rhymes: -emo
* Hyphenation: te‧mo

### Noun

temo (accusative singular temon, plural temoj, accusative plural temojn)
* topic that something is about, subject, theme
* (music) theme

#### Derived terms

* ĉeftemo (“main theme”)

#### Related terms

* temi pri (“to be on the subject of”)

## Galician
### Verb

temo
* first-person singular present indicative of temer

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto temo, English theme, French thème, German Thema, Italian tema, Russian те́ма (téma), Spanish tema. Ultimately from Latin thēma, from Ancient Greek [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈte.mo/

### Noun

temo (plural temi)
* topic, subject, theme

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin tēmō. Doublet of timone.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛ.mo/
* Rhymes: -ɛmo
* Hyphenation: tè‧mo

#### Noun

temo m (plural temi)
* (poetic, obsolete) helm, rudder
    Synonym: timone

#### Further reading

* temo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛ.mo/, (traditional) /ˈte.mo/
* Rhymes: -ɛmo, (traditional) -emo
* Hyphenation: tè‧mo, (traditional) té‧mo

#### Verb

temo
* first-person singular present indicative of temere

### Anagrams

* mote

## Japanese
### Romanization

temo
* Rōmaji transcription of ても

## Latin
### Etymology

Uncertain:
* Maybe from an Old Latin *teksmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to cut, hew”). Cognates would then include Latin texō, Sanskrit तक्षति (takṣati), Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬱𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (taša$^i$ti) Proto-Germanic *þahsuz, Ancient Greek τίκτω (tíktō), τέκτων (téktōn), τέχνη (tékhnē).
* Maybe from an Old Latin *tenksmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tengʰ- (“to pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”). Cognates would then include Proto-Germanic *þinhslō (“wagon pole, thill”).
* Maybe from an Old Latin *tensmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch”), another extension of Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈteː.moː/, [ˈt̪eːmoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈte.mo/, [ˈt̪ɛːmo]

### Noun

tēmō m (genitive tēmōnis); third declension
* pole
* tongue (of a carriage or plow)
* beam

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance: (may instead reflect Late Latin tīmō)
** Italian: timone
** Sicilian: timuni
* North Italian:
** Friulian: tamon
** Lombard: temon (Como)
** Romansch: zamun
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: temon
*** Galician: temón, tamón
*** Portuguese: temão
* Borrowings:
** → Berber: atemmu
** →⇒ Byzantine Greek: τεμώνιον (temṓnion)
Reflexes of the Late Latin variant tīmō:
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: timone, timoni, timona
* North Italian:
** Venetan: timon (see there for further descendants)
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: timó
** French: timon
** Occitan: timon
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: timón
** Portuguese: timão
** Galician: timón
** Spanish: timón

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tēmo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 13: T–Ti, page 167
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tēmō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 610
* ↑ Ibid.

### Further reading

* “temo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “temo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* temo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* temo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Northern Sotho
### Noun

temo
* agriculture

## Portuguese
### Verb

temo
* first-person singular present indicative of temer

## Sotho
### Etymology

From lema.

### Noun

temo class 9 (uncountable)
* agriculture

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtemo/ [ˈt̪e.mo]
* Rhymes: -emo
* Syllabification: te‧mo

### Verb

temo
* first-person singular present indicative of temar
* first-person singular present indicative of temer

## Ternate
### Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *temo (“to say”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈte.mo]

### Verb

temo
* (intransitive) to crow
* (transitive) to scold
* (transitive) to slander

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh